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none 1818 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1818. Events thumb|right|upright|The actor T. P. Cooke as Frankenstein's monster in an 1823 stage production of Mary Shelley's novel January 1 – Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus first appears anonymously in London.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800–1820 Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820 2007-09-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 2007-10-17 dead Its originality is praised by Walter Scott.Scott Walter March 1818 Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus; A Novel http://romantic-circles.org/reference/chronologies/mschronology/reviews/bemrev.html Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 613–620 2020-01-14 2020-03-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20200114230307/https://romantic-circles.org/reference/chronologies/mschronology/reviews/bemrev.html dead January 8 – Lord Byron, in Venice, sends the final part of Childe Harold to his publisher.Letter CCCIV. January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" appears in the weekly The Examiner (London; p. 24) under the pen name "Glirastes".Glirastes 1818 24 The banker and political writer Horace Smith spent the Christmas season of 1817–1818 with Percy and Mary Shelley. At this time, the members of their literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject: Shelley, John Keats, and Leigh Hunt wrote competing sonnets about the Nile around the same time. Shelley and Smith both chose a passage from the writings of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE) in Bibliotheca Historica, which described a massive Egyptian statue and quoted its inscription: "King of Kings Ozymandias am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work." In Shelley's poem, Diodorus has been replaced by "a traveller from an antique land" whom Shelley metaphorically "met".Siculus Diodorus Bibliotheca Historica 1.47.4 https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Diod.+1.47&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540 25 February 2021 21 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210225093133/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Diod.+1.47&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540 live See footnote 10 at the following source, for reference to the Loeb Classical Library translation of this inscription, by C. H. Oldfather: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/ozymandias, accessed 12 April 2014.See section/verse 1.47.4 at the following presentation of the 1933 version of the Loeb Classics translation, which also matches the translation appearing here: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/1C*.html, accessed 12 April 2014.For the original Greek, see: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D47%3Asection%3D4 Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. In aedibus B. G. Teubneri 1.47.4 el 1-2 At the Perseus Project. Shelley wrote the poem around Christmas 18172013-12-18 King of Kings The Economist https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2013/12/18/king-of-kings 2021-02-07 0013-0613 27 October 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221027132420/https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2013/12/18/king-of-kings live either in December that year or early January 1818.Mozer 2010 728 The poem was published on 11 January 1818 under the pen name "Glirastes"Carter 2018 in The Examiner,Glirastes 1818 24 a weekly paper published by Leigh's brother John Hunt in London. Hunt admired Shelley's poetry, and published many of his other works, such as The Revolt of Islam (1818), in The Examiner.Graham 1925 Shelley's pen name meant "lover of dormice", "Dormouse" being his pet name for his spouse, the fellow author Mary Shelley.https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/07/06/romantic-interests-ozymandias-shelley-dormouse Romantic Interests: "Ozymandias" and a Runaway Dormouse | The New York Public Library Nypl.org 2018-07-06 2022-08-22 25 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201125080406/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/07/06/romantic-interests-ozymandias-shelley-dormouse live Smith's sonnet of the same name was published several weeks later.Stephens 2009 156 Shelley's poem also appeared on page 24 in the yearly collection, under Original Poetry. It appeared again in Shelley's 1819 collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems. Shelley Percy Bysshe Rosalind and Helen, a modern eclogue; with other poems 1819 London 92 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t1bk2mq33&view=1up&seq=106 March 12 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy, intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron.Robert Gittings Gittings Robert Jo Manton Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys https://archive.org/details/claireclairmonts0000gitt registration Oxford University Press 1992 0-19-818594-4 39–42 April 11 – John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge take a walk on Hampstead Heath. In a letter to his brother George, Keats writes that they talked of "a thousand things... nightingales, poetry, poetical sensation, metaphysics."Andrew Motion Motion Andrew Keats London Faber 1997 057117227X 365–66 May 11 – The Old Vic is founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in South London by James King, Daniel Dunn and John Thomas Serres. June – Last issue of The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature is published in Baltimore with John Neal as editor. Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 111 June–August – Keats with his friend Charles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland and the English Lake District. On July 11 while in Scotland he visits Burns Cottage, the birthplace of Robert Burns (1759–1796). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."Costa, Robert (2009-08-04). "Keats’s House, Restored". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2009-08-12. Archived 2009-08-15. but his encounter with the cottage's alcoholic custodian returns him to thoughts of misery.Sidney Colvin Sidney Colvin John Keats On August 2 he climbs to the summit of Ben Nevis, on which he writes a sonnet.200 years ago Keats climbed Ben Nevis Keats 200 http://johnkeats200.co.uk/1818/200-years-ago-keats-climbed-ben-nevis/ 2018 2020-04-01 July Thomas De Quincey begins 16 months as editor of a new weekly newspaper The Westmorland Gazette, published at Kendal in the English Lake District. The Stephenson Blake type foundry begins operation in Sheffield, England. July 18 – Walter Scott's historical novel The Heart of Midlothian appears as Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, by "Jedediah Cleishbotham", in four volumes. A shipload of copies is sent from John Ballantyne (publisher) in Edinburgh to London.John Sutherland (author) John Sutherland How to be Well Read London Random House 2014 978-1-847-94640-9 214 August 28 – The National Library of Iceland is founded as Íslands stiftisbókasafn, at the instigation of a Danish antiquarian, Carl Christian Rafn, and the Icelandic Literary Society. September 19 – Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore that he has completed the first canto of Don Juan, begun on July 3.Letter CCCXXII. November – Fanny Brawne first meets John Keats at the home of Charles Armitage Brown.Walsh John Evangelist Darkling, I Listen: The Last Days and Death of John Keats New York St. Martin's Press 1999 0312222556 registration https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312222550 December 17 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a series of lectures on poetry, drama and philosophy, beginning with Shakespeare's The Tempest.http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-col.htm Hamlet Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge Shakespeare and his Critics 2014-01-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20140113132438/http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-col.htm 2014-01-13 dead December – Keats is invited to move into Brown's home at Wentworth Place in Hampstead, at this time a pastoral suburb north of London, where he will write much of his most famous work.Costa Robert https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204886304574308681606221044 Keats's House, Restored The Wall Street Journal 2009-08-04 2009-08-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20090808133858/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204886304574308681606221044.html live 2009-08-08 New books Fiction Jane Austen (died 1817) Northanger Abbey (completed 1803) Persuasion (so dated, but issued December 1817) Patrick Brontë (anonymous) – The Maid of Killarney Selina Davenport – An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart Susan Edmonstone Ferrier – Marriage Franz Grillparzer – Sappho Ann Hatton – Secrets in Every Mansion Mary Meeke – The Veiled Protectress Sydney Owenson – Florence Macarthy: an Irish tale Charles Nodier – Jean SbogarPartridge, Eric. The French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature. Slatkine Reprints, 1974. p.52 Thomas Love Peacock (anonymous) – Nightmare Abbey Anna Maria Porter – The Fast of St. Magdalen: a Romance Walter Scott (as Jedediah Cleishbotham) – The Heart of Midlothian (Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series) Mary Shelley (anonymously) – Frankenstein Louisa Stanhope The Bandit's Bride The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro Elizabeth Thomas – Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch Children Maria Hack – Winter Evenings Mary Martha Sherwood (anonymous) – The History of the Fairchild Family; or, The Child's Manual (Part I; Part II in 1842, Part III in 1847) Drama William Dimond – The Bride of Abydos John Dillon – Retribution Franz Grillparzer – Sappho James Kenney – A Word to the Ladies Henry Hart Milman – Fazio Silvio Pellico – Francesca da Rimini Richard Sheil – Bellamira Poetry Kristijonas Donelaitis – The Seasons John Keats – Endymion Thomas Bowdler – The Family Shakspeare (2nd bowdlerized edition expanded from 1807 edition)Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 249–250 0-7126-5616-2 John Neal – Battle of Niagara, a Poem, without Notes; and Goldau, or the Maniac Harper Sears Donald A. John Neal Twayne Publishers Boston, Massachusetts 1978 080-5-7723-08 145 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias The Revolt of Islam (so dated, but issued December 1817) Elizabeth Thomas (anonymous) – The Confession, or, The Novice of St Clare, and other Poems Non-fiction Elizabeth Beverley – Modern Times, "sermon" prompted by death of Princess Charlotte of Wales Josef Dobrovský – Geschichte der böhmischen Sprache und Literatur (Dějiny českého jazyka a literatury, History of the Czech Language) John Evelyn (died 1706) – Diary (selection; diary covers 1641–1697) Henry Hallam – The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages William Hazlitt – Lectures on the English Poets James Mill – The History of British India Charles Mills – History of Mohammedanism Collin de Plancy – Dictionnaire Infernal Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) Births January 14 – Zachris Topelius, Swedish-language Finnish novelist (died 1898) February – Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist, author and orator (died 1895) April 23 – James Anthony Froude, English religious controversialist and historian (died 1894) May 5 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (died 1883) May 25 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (died 1897) July 30 – Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1848)Emily Bronte Biography, Works, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte Encyclopedia Britannica 8 April 2019 en August 3 – Mary Bell Smith, American educator, social reformer, and writer (died 1894) November 9 (October 28 OS) – Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1883) Deaths January 11 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss children's author writing in German (born 1743)J. D. Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson https://books.google.com/books?id=JOwBCCtE2sAC&pg=PT409 5 March 2009 Penguin Adult 978-0-14-132530-9 409 March 6 – John Gifford, English political writer (born 1758) May 14 – Matthew Lewis, English novelist and dramatist (born 1775) June 11 – Elizabeth Bonhôte, English novelist, essayist and poet (born 1744)Christopher Reeve, "Bonhôte, Elizabeth (1744–1818)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) Retrieved 24 September 2015 October 8 – Radu Golescu, Wallachian statesman and literary sponsor (born 1746) October 22 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist and publisher (born 1746) November 6 – Malcolm Laing, Scottish historian (born 1762) December 7 – Mary Brunton, Scottish novelist (born 1778)Royle Trevor The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature 2012 Random House 9781780574196 92 https://books.google.com/books?id=r8C1I7yD8wUC&pg=PT92 en Awards Newdigate Prize – T. H. OrmerodThe Gentleman's Magazine, 88(1): p. 443. Notes References 30em Sources Romantic Interests: "Ozymandias" and a Runaway Dormouse 2018-07-06 Charles Carter https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/07/06/romantic-interests-ozymandias-shelley-dormouse 2021-04-11 The New York Public Library 25 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201125080406/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/07/06/romantic-interests-ozymandias-shelley-dormouse live Glirastes Percy Bysshe Shelley Original Poetry. Ozymandias 24 Google Books: The Examiner, A Sunday Paper, on politics, domestic economy and theatricals for the year 1818 London John Hunt Jan 11, 1818 The Examiner 524 https://books.google.com/books?id=TMPPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA24 Graham Walter Shelley's Debt to Leigh Hunt and the Examiner PMLA 40 1 1925 185–192 10.2307/457275 457275 163481698 Hadley J. Mozer 'Ozymandias', or De Casibus Lord Byron: Literary Celebrity on the Rocks European Romantic Review 21 6 2010 727–749 10.1080/10509585.2010.514494 143662539 Stephens Walter 2009 Ozymandias: Or, Writing, Lost Libraries, and Wonder MLN 124 5 S155–S168 40606230 10.1353/mln.0.0197 162581015 0026-7910 External links 1818 Books at Goodreads